u/No-Astronomer-1684

I changed my win rate to about 100% with a simple change.

so I swapped my starting pokemon from Melmetal (lvl 50, 13-15-15, dib, sp,) to Zacian (5085 cp, bb, pr 9-13-15) and suddenly my win rate changed to nearly a hundred. I also have a mewtwo. What caused this drastic of a change?

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u/No-Astronomer-1684 — 2 days ago
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My stepmom (40f) and I (18M) have butted heads for years. As far as I can remember it got noticeably worse my Junior year in highschool. For context the year before I had finally built a mild bond with her after watching Stranger Things. I loved the show at the time even tho I hated the finally (more on that later) but during that year I had issues with my mental health triggered by immense loss in a brief amount of time.

Now back to stepmom. My father ( also 40 M) and her have been together since I was about 3. She has a daughter (16) of her own without my father they have a kid together (11 M) they still have a very strong bond with my step mother. Essentially my stepmom had pointed out that I had been talking to this girl at the time who got with someone. Kinda on me and definitely fueled the fire to some extent but I was over her pretty quickly all things considered. Her BF at the time started getting mad at me. He is a problematic dude tho and has several SA accusations, run ins with the police, etc. but this on top of my mom being in rehab, my dog dying, the overwhelming nature of the school year became too much.

The whole time I was struggling my stepmom had accused me of falling to hard for the girl and failing school almost intentionally. I did not. I was failing because I had plans for my life and school wasn’t a part of it. if you catch my drift.

So over the years there have been several times where we would argue over little things like respect, and her saying that I wasn’t well and was thinking irrationally about her. My whole life I’ve felt like I’ve never measured up to other peoples expectation and have always failed everyone. My siblings grew away from me for a while.

So now I’m in college. A lot of things have happened since then. More petty arguments and so on including watching the final episode of stranger things without me and my twin brother. Things have happened since, I‘ve fumbled more girls and I’ve done more stupid things. All things considered pretty good for myself. I don’t see my dad and stepmom as much which makes it easier for me and I can finally live my life without failing to measure up to her expectations.

however…

it’s been cleat from the start of the semester that she’s been favoring my twin brother over me. She has him on Facebook, drops things for him and a whole slew of other things especially with his most recent break up. She treated him a lot nicer than ever, visiting him and keeping in touch a lot.

So this week. I have had a severe migraine. I had to go to urgent care because it was sudden and nearly unprompted.(now learning I may have been sick) but at the time one of my friends was with me and I started crying. I dont cry much anymore, prolly something to do with growing up, but this was bad. at one point my whole body was tingling and numb. friend brings me to Urgent Care and urgent care does nothing. They did inform me that it could be serious yet they were unequipped to investigate the brain and that I SHOULD see a doctor.

So today. I had made it to my father’s house. (because of insurance reasons he is the only one who can really bring me) so I walk into the door and immediately am greeted by my stepmom. “what’s up with you“ not “Hey, No-Astromer” or anything. just straight to my issues. didn’t think much about it until she said something along the lines of “we all get headaches and you didn’t have yours that long”

I walked upstairs to my room and took a nap. Im sick so this is a rational choice. my dad yelled to me from downstairs that I had gotten fries. At some point i went to get those fries and my stepmom had told me that I couldn’t have them. In that moment my feet got numb and I went to sit down.

My stepmom immediately sighed and brought up the fact that I was being dramatic and pretty much told me (once again) that I was making things up. we always argue and it’s never really getting better or worse.

Help me Reddit

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u/No-Astronomer-1684 — 22 days ago